How to use push button to toggle Led in raspberry pi?

[Gunner]

@JasonV

But my intention that I very much would like to do is to turn on and off the LED light by PRESSING the button instead of releasing.

Near as I can tell, Node-Red's ui_button only "triggers" on release - as I discovered when working on this topic...

Can ui-button respond to double-click

Actually, it doesn't trigger on the "press", rather it triggers on the "release"... strange that I never noted that before. It clearly detects the press visually, so why not trigger on both?

However there are some solutions - such as creating your own button ...

Press button state

Hello Ali .. you could use the ui_template node and take advantage of javascripts mousedown and mouseup eventlisteners on the button. Example Flow [{"id":"81fc920712f2501c","type":"ui_template","z":"4895ea10b4ee9ead","group":"e68f0343d6bbfce5","name":"","order":0,"width":0,"height":0,"format":"<button id=\"myBtn\">Click Me</button>\n\n<script>\n(function(scope) {\n\nlet myBtn = document.getElementById('myBtn')\n\nmyBtn.addEventListener('mousedown', e => {\nscope.send({payload: 1})\n});\n\nmyB…